leader, though to win her trust, Marlowe publicly punches Lassiter in the face. During the 7th season, Marlowe gets paroled. Her parole officer is an officer whom Lassiter didn't call back after sleeping with her. She implements rules designed to keep the two apart, including a no non-spousal cohabitation rule. Marlowe moves in with Juliet and Shawn, who are trying to start a life as a couple. The separation (and the strain on Marlowe's roommates) becomes insufferable and the two announce their intent to marry, which they do in the next episode. In Season 8 Episode 2, S.E.I.Z.E. the Day, Marlowe reveals to Lassiter that they are expecting their first child. Lassiter tells a suspect about this, and Shawn, Gus and Juliet overhear. In the episode 'Shawn and Gus Truck Things Up', Marlowe goes into labor and has a baby girl in a food truck. In the series finale, Shawn is about to confess on a video farewell to not being psychic but Lassiter destroys the disc first, showing that while he always knew the truth about Shawn, he has come to accept Spencer as a friend; it may also have been a way to "keep the mystery alive" in a way that Shawn would approve, or as a way to prevent cases Spencer solved to be reopened and marked as a mistrial. Characterization Lassiter distrusts Shawn in general and does not believe his claims of being psychic. He is also the only character in the series to have (correctly) guessed from the beginning that Shawn invented the story about being psychic to avoid investigation and became trapped in the lies; this strongly contrasts Henry, who already knew about Shawn's honed observational and deductive abilities. After several years of working together, Lassiter summarizes his criticisms of Shawn, stating, "I’ve known you for six years, Spencer. I know your little act. You do your little dance, you beat polygraph machines. You always manage to guess the right culprit after missing the first four or five times. You whip that hair around and fall over every reasonable girl that Guster hasn’t unsuccessfully hit on already." However, over time he has developed a grudging respect for Shawn's investigation skills, something he admits in one episode only after becoming intoxicated. Omundson describes his character's animosity towards Shawn as stemming from the fact that Lassiter has worked hard to climb the chain of command and